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NEW: I was asked to start compiling a list of companies bending the knee to the Trump regime by ditching their DEI programs. Here you go! www.muellershewrote.com/p/companies-...

submitted 21 days ago • 307 comments

We all need to be so vigilant about this sort of misuse of language, and calling it out & correcting it - especially when the media uncritically adopts the spin. This sort of bullshit is rife in Australia too, but we can all stop buying into it.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Why shoot someone on 5th avenue when you can kill so many more with a memo?

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

Hard to believe but 18 years ago, I sent the great Alfonso Cuaron an advance copy of The Shock Doctrine and asked if he might be willing to write a blurb. He made a short film instead. This is it. Still chills me. Share with whoever you think it might help. www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7fW...

submitted 26 days ago • 33 comments

It began in the 1980s when the generation who did not fight in WWII assumed power (or at least the plurality of voters). It saw the end of the post-WWII social contract, the start of neo-liberalism and disdain for learning. Coupled with the rise of Murdoch power pushing all 3. Straight line to now

submitted 27 days ago • 12 comments

A big misconception about Greenland is that since it’s labeled a Danish colony, its residents are just a bunch of white dudes named Kristian—which is extremely harmful and inaccurate. The population is 85% Indigenous! It belongs to the Kalaallit people, not to Denmark and CERTAINLY not to the U.S.

submitted 29 days ago • 161 comments

I’ll never get over that all of this was avoidable and our kids could’ve had a better future had voters just made the obviously rational choice in November. It’s water under the bridge now. But what the fuck, people.

submitted 30 days ago • 1585 comments

Is someone keeping a list of all the companies junking their DEI policies so we know who not to buy from? Or companies doing the right thing so we can support them? We need to be naming & shaming in a way that's easy to find and share.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

The Trump Administration is launching nothing less than a giant affirmative action program for straight white men, a great many of whom, including Trump and Vance, are utterly unqualified for their positions and would be mocked for their hubris if they were women or Black or gay or.....

submitted 30 days ago • 24 comments

Australia is increasingly criminalising peaceful protests while allowing corporate lobbying to thrive. As @jack-thrower.bsky.social writes - Protesting fines are expensive; lobbying is cheap. #OffTheCharts australiainstitute.org.au/post/compare...

submitted 31 days ago • 5 comments

Not just some people, but all people—on Earth—must watch this video and share it as widely as possible. Every word of it is true, and it confirms that Elon Musk is a white supremacist leader stoking violence around the world. His two televised Nazi salutes were exactly what you thought they were.

submitted 31 days ago • 128 comments

Newly updated messaging guide on immigrant rights. Like all the research-backed resources we create, it's freely available and open source! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 32 days ago • 4 comments

You’re going to see a lot of your favourites jump on the Trump et al bandwagon this time around in the name of ‘unity’ and ‘bringing people together’. Make no mistake - it’s not unity, it’s capitulation

submitted 34 days ago • 37 comments

These most fancy-shaped of sea pancakes need our help: nb.australiainstitute.org.au/end_salmon_f... Tamania's Maugean skate's family can be traced back all the way to Gondwana 66mya. But they are now critically endangered & under threat from commercial salmon farming 🦑🌏🌿 #WildOz 📷 Jane Rucker/IMAS

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment

The cruelty of this is gobsmacking. I'd rather spend my time with a homeless person and their dog than a Moreton Bay councilor any day. People and their pets doing it tough need help and compassion, not punishment. www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

Australia’s housing affordability crisis is not that difficult to solve: increase supply and lower demand by ending the incentives that treat housing as an investment vehicle rather than someone’s home. Now if only we had a government brave enough to do it.

submitted 70 days ago • 54 comments

This is so disturbing and disappointing. And so, so stupid.

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

Every single time Dutton wants to avoid something, he throws up a distraction. He’s dropped the migration cuts (after lobbying from the BCA), nuclear costings will be a joke and another senior front bencher is retiring. So: culture war

submitted 76 days ago • 49 comments

Every news agency and org that fails to present it as “Israel’s prime minister - who is wanted by the international criminal court for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity - has said it is “extreme” to call for Israel to comply with international law is failing

submitted 79 days ago • 33 comments

This\ is, in at least one way, the most remarkable piece of art on earth. I think everyone should know the story of it. So I made a video about it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rb9_...

submitted 79 days ago • 64 comments

Well, it was nice having a public and publicly accountable astrophysics and space flight program while we had it 🔭 What people don't appreciate is that NASA is one of the world's largest climate change research organizations. So, fuck. Fuck fuck fuck www.washingtonpost.com/science/2024...

submitted 81 days ago • 20 comments

Australia's housing crisis isn't just changing the lives of some unlucky individuals, it's completely reshaping our society and breaking down communities. Until housing is prioritised as a human right over being a financial investment, the system will stay broken. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

This is huge. The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries 👇 www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/e...

submitted 83 days ago • 1507 comments

I’m going to tell it like it is. The 3 anti - refugee and migrant bills by the Albanese Gov are an attack on multiculturalism. An attack on migrant and refugee communities. They will impact at least 80,000 people, tear families apart & breach international human rights laws.

submitted 88 days ago • 8 comments

Spending a month on Bluesky has created a whole new model of a fight we need to be having right now. Not liberal vs. conservative or whatever, but respect vs manipulation. I am tired of being manipulated everywhere I go. That’s why I like it here, I feel like I’m in charge for once.

submitted 88 days ago • 351 comments

Nation’s average IQ spared massive plunge.

submitted 88 days ago • 69 comments

“Almost 1,500 people are dying in homelessness every year, with new research from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare showing a 63% surge in preventable deaths.” www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

submitted 89 days ago • 11 comments

Albanese told parliament that he want to make sure "children have a childhood and parents have peace of mind"... and so he is raising the rate of govt assistance to ensure children will not live in pover...oh wait, sorry I am being handed a note...

submitted 91 days ago • 29 comments

The Southern Emu-wren is a tiny, blue and gold #bird with ribbon-like tail feathers. Sadly, with est. 750 left, the Eyre Peninsula subspecies is at risk of extinction due to a rocket launch facility. The Aust Govt promised no new extinctions: enough is enough: birdlife.org.au/campaign/nat...

submitted 96 days ago • 1 comment

Look I reckon the answer is probably no and in addition, fuck off.

submitted 98 days ago • 37 comments

Blocking Nazis, trolls, and fascists doesn’t make it an “echo chamber.” People need to stop gaslighting us into thinking we have to listen to Nazis and debate trolls in order to be informed.

submitted 99 days ago • 1830 comments

Word of the Day, should you need it, is ‘latibulate’, a 17th-century verb meaning to find a corner somewhere and hide in it.

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